Bitcoin-Qt / bitcoind version 0.8.0 released - page 5.

Dabs

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The Concierge of Crypto

I am using Windows XP SP3.

H:\Bitcoin>dir
Volume in drive Q is BITCOIN
Volume Serial Number is XXXX-XXXX

Directory of Q:\Bitcoin

2013-02-21 09:31 AM .
2013-02-21 09:31 AM ..
2012-09-18 10:19 AM 0 .lock
2012-09-18 13:57 PM 3,850,240 addr.dat
2012-09-27 12:05 PM 131,072 backup.dat
2012-09-18 13:25 PM 2,097,384,811 blk0001.dat
2013-01-04 10:34 AM 2,097,346,788 blk0002.dat
2013-02-20 22:13 PM 1,561,011,203 blk0003.dat
2013-02-20 22:18 PM 1,809,104,896 blkindex.dat
2013-02-20 22:28 PM blocks
2013-02-21 09:22 AM chainstate
2013-02-20 22:18 PM database
2012-09-24 08:41 AM 0 db.log
2013-02-21 08:31 AM 564,356 debug.log
2013-02-21 09:31 AM 956,384 peers.dat
2013-02-21 09:18 AM 172,032 wallet.dat

What can I safely delete? I highlighted in bold and color what I think can be deleted. Can someone confirm this?

DannyHamilton

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As a benchmark for those who are interested, I installed 0.8.0 on a 5 year old 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM and a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB graphics processor running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. The total synchronization time starting on 2013-02-19 was 22 hours, and the total disk space used is 6.4 GB

Disk usage:

Code:

$ pwd; du -h
~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin
 31M    ./blocks/index
6.2G    ./blocks
193M    ./chainstate
10.0M   ./database
6.4G    .

Pieter Wuille

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Quote from: deepceleron on February 20, 2013, 06:35:32 PM

You can remove blk0001.dat, blk0002.dat, blk0003.dat and blkindex.dat from the data directory after a reindex is complete and you are caught up with the blockchain (and you don't plan on going back to an older version). Only blkindex should actually be using disk space, as the old BLK000x data are moved upon upgrade, and the blk000x.dat files you see there are hardlinks (shortcuts) on any filesystem that supports hardlinking.

Correct.

Technically, you don't even need to wait for the reindex to complete (as reindexing uses the block files in blocks/blk* to build chainstate and blocks/index).

deepceleron

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Quote from: debianlinux on February 20, 2013, 06:17:09 PM

Wow, so my datadir went from ~7GB to ~13.5GB.

Is there any of this that is deprecated and can be pruned? I regularly backup the entire datadir and having it double in size in one day as opposed to over a couple of years is kind of harsh.

You can remove blk0001.dat, blk0002.dat, blk0003.dat and blkindex.dat from the data directory after a reindex is complete and you are caught up with the blockchain (and you don't plan on going back to an older version). Only blkindex should actually be using disk space, as the old BLK000x data are moved upon upgrade, and the blk000x.dat files you see there are hardlinks (shortcuts) on any filesystem that supports hardlinking.

debianlinux

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Quote from: Gabi on February 20, 2013, 06:23:47 PM

It doubled because the old blockchain is still there?

well, I seriously doubt that there is a new blockchain, lol
also it didn't run long enough to download a duplicate, it just reindexed
surely some of this can be deleted but I am unsure what is safe to delete.

Gabi

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If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat

It doubled because the old blockchain is still there?

debianlinux

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Wow, so my datadir went from ~7GB to ~13.5GB.

Is there any of this that is deprecated and can be pruned? I regularly backup the entire datadir and having it double in size in one day as opposed to over a couple of years is kind of harsh.

c0ldfusi0nz

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Does anyone know when the Ubuntu PPA will be updated?

ajk

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Just downloaded and used A+ !!!,

Want to say thank you to everyone who takes the time to develop the bitcoin clients!, every update gets better and better and you guys are only doing great things for the community,

Best wishes to you and yours and again thank you for your hard work although some may not express it often there are many out there who appreciate everything you all are doing!.

Cheers!

sharky112065

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Quote from: jgarzik on February 20, 2013, 12:08:01 PM

As a companion release, the Bitcoin blockchain data torrent has been updated.

This torrent gives you a "bootstrap.dat" file. If you are initializing a bitcoin client for the first time, drop bootstrap.dat into $DATADIR (your bitcoin data directory), and the bitcoin client will import all the block/transaction data found in that file.

P.S. Long-term seeders are requested and welcome! See thread linked above for details.

Just added it to my seedbox and will let it go until a newer version is released.

jgarzik

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As a companion release, the Bitcoin blockchain data torrent has been updated.

This torrent gives you a "bootstrap.dat" file. If you are initializing a bitcoin client for the first time, drop bootstrap.dat into $DATADIR (your bitcoin data directory), and the bitcoin client will import all the block/transaction data found in that file.

P.S. Long-term seeders are requested and welcome! See thread linked above for details.

Gavin Andresen

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Chief Scientist

A couple people asked if they need to upgrade if they are running rc1: no, I wouldn't bother.

The only significant code change is better handling of the rare case of one of the leveldb database files being corrupted. If you're really curious, github will show you the differences between any two versions; here are the rc1 to 0.8.0 final release differences: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/compare/v0.8.0rc1...v0.8.0

camolist

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peer bandwidth now seems to be the biggest bottleneck

testing on a windows 2008 server VM (1gb ram/8cpus that i get to use what is not in use by others/50mbit sec dedicated)

4 hours 20 minutes in 13800 blocks remaining

any ideas for downloading multiple blocks at a time from multiple peers?
say its on block 10000 and you are connected to 8 peers...why not download the next 8 one from each peer?

and seems i got stuck on a very slow peer for several blocks? (sub 1kb/sec)

sorry if there is logic like this already going on just ideas

going to let this windows vm finish syncing then delete it and switch over to Ubuntu and do the same. i have 50mbit/sec dedicated uploaded sitting around doing nothing. will put it on a dedicated ip and suggest it around to new users syncing

Stapleddiet

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Upgraded no probs but left with a 14.5 gig file, took about 1 1/2hr. I have been on wireless for the last two years due to remoteness, upgraded ver as soon as they came out.
So as much as i hate it i have been a major leach on the system but thats about to change thanks to BTC I can get out of my shipping container into a new house.
Is there anyway to throttle how much bandwidth the client uses but stay online to seed something not full throttle all of the time?
Win7, 64bit
AMD Cpu 4core.
ATI 6950

Mike Hearn

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I don't think Windows 8 changes much actually, as it's not a Metro app, but the latest versions of MacOS X refuse to run unsigned code unless you go into settings and disable GateKeeper. Obviously, we don't want the instructions for running Bitcoin to involve disabling security systems, which is why the Foundation is now signing the binaries. If somebody tried to ship a fake Bitcoin that was actually a wallet stealer, it wouldn't be signed and GateKeeper would refuse to run it.

This sort of thing is obviously quite dangerous given Apples track record with the iPhone, but at least for now in its current form, GateKeeper does actually make people safer.

alexanderanon

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"Mac and Windows binaries are signed with certificates owned by the Bitcoin
Foundation, to be compatible with the new security features in OSX 10.8 and
Windows 8."

Can somebody explain this please?

jl2012

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Do I need to update if I'm already running 0.8 rc1?

grondilu

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I'm running it, watching the progress with:

Code:

$ tail -f ~/.bitcoin/debug.log

It looks amazingly fast.

Dayofswords

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Exchange BTC in Telegram https://bit.ly/2MEfiw8

No PPA yet....

keystroke

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advocate of a cryptographic attack on the globe

Just upgraded from rc1. Working great so far on Windows 8.

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